DAVID MARSHALL won’t have any sympathy when former Bluebirds manager Dave Jones brings his Sheffield Wednesday team to Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday (3pm).

DAVID MARSHALL won’t have any sympathy when former Bluebirds manager Dave Jones brings his Sheffield Wednesday team to Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday (3pm).

It was Jones, then manager of Cardiff, who brought Marshall to South Wales in a £500,000 transfer from Norwich three years ago.

This Sunday, though, Marshall will be out to defy his former boss when Wednesday visit Cardiff City Stadium.

The Owls lie second from bottom in the Championship after suffering five successive defeats, while Marshall has played a leading role in Cardiff's charge to the top.

City have earned nine successive home wins, equalling the club record, while Jones is under increasing pressure in Sheffield. Wednesday have scored only two goals and conceded 12 in a dreadful run of five defeats, including a 4-1 home mauling against Watford at Hillsborough in midweek.

“We’ll do all we can to add to his woes – that’s football,” says Marshall. “He would have had exactly the same attitude had the situation been reversed.

“Dave Jones had a really good time with Cardiff City and took the team to a level where we were always challenging. He is an experienced manager, we know exactly how he is and that he can bring a team together.

“Dave is under pressure and Wednesday are struggling, but we have to make sure our preparation and mental approach is spot on. It’s a match we need to win.

“We will be focused on our own ambitions.”

Marshall, 27, is one of three ever-present Cardiff players this season – along with Mark Hudson and Peter Whittingham – and is committed to the Bluebirds until 2015 after signing a new contract in May.

City’s home form has been a crucial factor in their promotion chase and the 6ft 3ins Marshall says: “We feel confident playing in front of our own fans at home. Their support helps us immensely.

“Dave Jones will have his team fired up and ready.”

The Bluebirds are currently on their best run of the season having earned three wins and a draw from the last four matches.

Marshall and his defenders have conceded only three goals in that spell.

Winger Craig Noone will miss the match against Wednesday after being sent off during the 1-1 midweek draw at Derby County, but Simon Lappin, a loan signing from Norwich, returns after serving his one-match ban.

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